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hunsonisgroovy:

“For the past three years, Frank Jacobs’s blog Strange Maps has been an increasingly wonderful trove of creative cartography. All of the works cataloged in Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities find a unique way to tweak the generic map…Jacobs’s book is filled with cartographic exercises that range from the historical, like a map of Thomas Jefferson’s proposal for naming new states in the Northwest territories, to the scientific, like a pie chart of which countries’ coastlines offer direct access to Antarctica. And then there are the jokes, like the oft-forwarded map of North America divided between the United States of Canada in the north and Jesusland in the south.”